[cc-community] cc usage stats

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Nov 27 18:28:46 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:16 +0100, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> at the risk of veering slightly off topic and going on a wild and 
> abstract academic tangent, I think that the development of the 'metrics 
> / stats' issue should include coming up with more transparent 
> information about these statistics - currently a number based on highly 
> fluctuating measurements and with several other serious difficulties 
> (most importantly, not every 'hit' is a full fledged 'work') becomes 
> transformed into a number: "150m licenses!" that gets widely presented 
> with a high dose of certainty. i've seen this number in use and it 
> *does* make a big impression - but I nevertheless feel transparency is 
> important and at least in one point on the net there should be clear 
> information about all the caveats surrounding the number.

I agree absolutely.  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_statistics
contains a highly accurate if very imprecise statement "Estimating
license adoption is a *very* inexact science."

> furthermore, i think we could come up with less spectacular (at least 
> initially) but more meaningful statistics - like number of journals 
> using CC licensing; number of publishers; number of universities; number 
> of press agencies (one? - Agencia Brasil - that's still a pretty good 
> number after four years, I think)... and so on.

Yep, I encourage you to create http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
or similar to record these ideas.

Another item in the queue is consistently gathering statistics from
curators, e.g., those at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_curators -- Flickr alone at
20something million images is pretty impressive.

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